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Government Size and Output Volatility: New International Evidence
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-07-08)
This paper re-examines the relationship between government size and output volatility from two perspectives. First, we use a wider international data set of 91 countries over the period 1980–1999 and thus not only the OECD ...
What Lies Behind the Unprecedented Increase in Income Inequality in Finland During the 1990's
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2001-02-27)
This study uses a decomposition analysis of income inequality by income groups and income sources to understand and explain the inequality increase in Finland during the 1990's. Several conclusions can be drawn from our ...
Nordic Dual Income Taxation of Entrepreneurs
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2007-04-05)
The paper shows how entrepreneurial taxes interact with the career choice of individuals, the quality of entrepreneurs, and their investment behavior. It is particularly relevant to differentiate the early effects on ...
The Impacts of WTO Export Subsidy Abolition on the Agri-food Industry in the EU: A Preliminary Assessment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2005-12-08)
As a part of agricultural negotiations, the WTO members have agreed to phase out all forms of export subsidies. This study evaluates the current level and commitments of subsidised export quantities and subsidy expenditures ...
Anticipating Tax Changes: Evidence from the Finnish Corporate Income Tax Reform of 2005
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-07-02)
Using register-based panel data covering all Finnish firms in 1999–2004, we examine how corporations anticipated the 2005 dividend tax increase via changes in their dividend and investment policies. The Finnish capital and ...
Economic Poverty in Finland 1971-2004
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2007-03-16)
In this paper we examined trends in the economic poverty in Finland using two data sources, the IDS (Income Distribution Survey) and the CES (Consumption Expenditure Survey). We drew on the recent literature on poverty ...
Does Centralised Wage Setting Lead into Higher Taxation?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-10-22)
This paper studies implications of centralised wage setting for the level of taxation and public expenditure in an analytical model with unionised labour markets. We extend the previous studies by allowing for both demand ...
Innovation Performance of Firms in Manufacturing Industry: Evidence from Belgium, Finland and Germany in 1998-2000
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2007-02-14)
The objective of this study is to study whether the R&D expenditures in Finnish firms generate better innovation output than in Belgian and German firms following the studies of Mohnen et al. (2006) and Mohnen and Dagenais ...
Taxes, Growth and Unemployment in the OECD Countries - Does Collective Bargaininig Matter?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-12-19)
This paper analyses how collective bargaining affects the level and structure of labour and capital taxes in OECD countries by using cross-country-time-series data. Corporatist countries are found to have higher effective ...
Uncovering the Dimensions of the Common Good - Problems of Measurement of the Size of the Public Sector
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-12-23)
There are problems in the measures of the size of the public sector both from the perspective of welfare state policies, monetary policy and the analysis of the economic role of public sector in general. In practice there ...